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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1894
Page
3
A retrospective contrasts slave life on Southern plantations with postwar freedom. It describes overseers and drivers, field work and pickaninny care, bell and pass signals, meals of pot liquor and molasses, quarters life, pastimes like possum feasts and coon hunts, and shifts in attitudes after emancipation.
In Calvary Cemetery Newton L I lies Patsy McNally a formerly homeless New York waif whom Lord Rosebery then Premier of Great Britain supported. The boy-educated and clothed at Rosebery’s expense- died in 1884 of consumption after a lifelong epistolary friendship.
Hassan Ali an Arabian youth said to be eight feet tall begins a world tour at Castan's Panoptikum in Berlin. An opening night spectator described him as a walking tree with a 13 inch hand span. His feet measure an inch longer. head about 12 inches long. He was born in Egypt and may still grow taller.
A burr oak on Norman Key’s farm four miles east of Sidney explodes after a lightning strike. The tall healthy tree with a trunk over 2 feet in diameter scattered slivers up to sixty rods away, as sap reportedly turns to steam and blasts the wood apart. The article notes a parallel with A S Layman’s 1858 steam gun method for pulping wood.
James D. Dalzell of Caldwell Ohio a founder of the Grand Army of the Republic and veteran of the Civil War attended the National Encampment in Pittsburg. Though a lawyer and former Ohio legislator he remained in the ranks and now plans a peaceful retirement after a long active life.
A T. B. Aldrich poem titled Insomnia from an upcoming volume drew public praise and strangers sent cure advertisements for sleeplessness. The correspondent notes Aldrich himself is a sound sleeper despite the poem’s vivid portrayal. The Detroit Tribune quips about a cartoon exchange on drink and despair.
A naturalist describes Neotoma cinerea known as the trade rat or mountain rat. The creature lives in timber and trades pinecones and pebbles for corn, as an honest trader with a cunning, mild-eyed appearance. The narrator contemplates delivering judgment but spares the rat.
In Paris, an inspector oversees all public restaurant ware, forbidding lead zinc and galvanized iron in utensils. Copper vessels must be tinned, glazed pottery with lead oxide seized, and tin cans soldered inside to meet standards. Ninety seven of two hundred fifty samples tested contained lead.
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